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Strong's #08245 - שָׁקַד
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- Strong
1) to wake, watch, awake, be alert
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to keep watch of, be wakeful over
1a2) to be wakeful, wake (as mourner or sufferer)
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2872) dqs (סהקד ShQD) AC: Watch CO: Eye AB: ?: Eyes open wide for watching carefully. [from: os]
V) dqs (סהקד ShQD) - Watch: To be alert and watchful. KJV (18): (vf: Pual, Participle) watch, wake, remain, hasten, almond - Strongs: H8245 (שָׁקַד), H8246 (מְשֻׁקָּד)
Nm) dqs (סהקד ShQD) - Almond: From its shape like an open eye. The nut or the tree. KJV (4): almond - Strongs: H8247 (שָׁקֵד)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal Perfect 3 masculine singular ׳שׁ Psalm 127:1, שָׁקַ֫דְתִּי Jeremiah 31:28; Psalm 102:8; Imperfect 3 masculine singular יִשְׁק֑וֺד Job 21:32 (Me Bu יִשְׁוֹ֑דוּ), וַיִּשְׁקֹד Daniel 9:14,1singular אֶשְׁקֹד Jeremiah 31:28; Imperative masculine plural שִׁקְדוּ Ezra 8:29; Infinitive construct לִשְׁקֹד Proverbs 8:34; Participle active שֹׁקֵד Jeremiah 1:12 +; plural construct שֹׁקְדֵי Isaiah 29:20; —
1 keep watch of, be wakeful over, ׳י subject, עַל person, to benefit or injure Jeremiah 31:28 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 44:27; עַל thing, to perform it Jeremiah 1:12; Daniel 9:14; so (men subject) שֹׁקְדֵי אָוֶן Isaiah 29:20; of leopard watching לְַעָֿרֵיהֶם Jeremiah 5:6 (to seize prey, figurative); of man watching (for admission) at (עַל) wisdom's doors Proverbs 8:34 ("" שָׁמַר); = keep guard over (עַל) Job 21:32, compare (absolute) וְשִׁמְרוּ׳שׁ Ezra 8:29 and (of watchman, שֹׁמֵר) Psalm 127:1.
2 be wakeful, wake, as mourner, sufferer Psalm 102:8. — Lamentations 1:14 read perhaps
Niph`al Perfect נִשְׁקַד עַלמְּֿשָׁעַי (ᵐ5 Bu) watch has been kept over my transgressions (compare
1 above), for ᵑ0׳נִשְׂקַד עֹל פ. —
Pu`al denominative see infra.
שָׁקַד fut. יִשְׁקֹד to be sleepless (Arab. شقِذ) Psalms 102:8 to watch, Psalms 127:1; Ezra 8:29. Figuratively
(a) followed by עַל to watch over any thing, i.e. to attend to it, to fix one’s attention on any thing, Jeremiah 1:12, 31:28 44:27 Daniel 9:14; Job 21:32 (but Proverbs 8:34, שָׁקַר עַל דְּלָתוֹת is to be taken in its proper sense, to watch at the threshold, to guard the threshold). Isaiah 29:20, שֹׁקְדֵי אָוֶן “those who watch for iniquity,” who are diligent not to do what is good, but what is evil.
(b) to lie in wait for (used of a leopard); followed by עַל Jeremiah 5:6.
Pual, part. מְשֻׁקָּד (denom. from שָׁקֵד) as if amygdalatus, i.e. made of the form of almond flowers, Exodus 25:33, 34 Exodus 25:34.
